As a child grows, the brain becomes more specialized and supports increasingly complex language abilities., Brain development, ↔️ Some functions specialize in one hemisphere., Lateralization, 🧠 Outer layer of the brain., Cerebral cortex, A person speaks slowly and with great effort. They have difficulty constructing sentences and often leave out grammatical elements., Broca’s aphasia, After an early brain injury, a child may show remarkable abilities to recover or reorganize some functions., Plasticity, 👶 Babies respond to language early., Biological predisposition, 👄 Difficulty coordinating speech movements., Apraxia, 🤟, Sign language

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